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Single Moment Changed Period 4 February Car
343 wordsPeriod 4 February Chills English 4 CP Period 4 February 23, 2000 Chills The sound of screeching brakes brought a painful shock up and down my spine. My heart dropped to my toes. Wondering what had just happened, I walked to class with an eerie feeling around me. Kids fluttered around gossiping about what had just happened. The words? coming out of everyone? s mouths was that it involved a small car. This single moment changed everything about me. My class I was in was real close to the street. I...
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Female Genital Mutilation Labia Majora
1,244 wordsFemale genital mutilation (FGM) is referred to as the removal of part, or all, of the female genitalia. The most severe form is infibulation, otherwise known as pharaonic circumcision. It is estimated that 15 % of all Fgm's performed in Africa are infibulation's. The procedure consists of clitoridectomy (all, or part of, the clitoris is removed), excision (removing all, or part of, the labia minora), and cutting of the labia majora to make raw surfaces, which are stitched together to form a cove...
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Didn T T Stand
1,310 wordsI looked ahead of myself, letting my feet do the work, for a moment. The trail seemed so distant and lengthy in front of me. The blue sky filled with scattered puffy, white like cotton clouds. The long grasses tickled at my legs, which were covered with nothing more than my shorts. My boyfriend and I were on our annual hike to Clear Lake. An obviously attractive name for a beautiful body of water. Clear Lake was an icy cold from the glacier run off but after a 2 day hike up a mountain ridge it a...
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Bipedal Locomotion Biped Ally Bipedalism
646 wordsBipedal Locomotion in Early Hominids Until recently, the oldest fossil species to provide evidence for bipedalism was Australopithecus afarensis, of which the best example of is the 3. 2 million year old skeleton called Lucy found in Hadar, Ethiopia. According to article 19: Sunset at the Savanna, in 1995 Make Leakey of the national Museums of Kenya and her colleagues made public the discovery of and older hominid species Australopithecus anamnesis (getting its name from the Turkana word for lak...
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Traditional Methods Education System
756 wordsEducation, without it we would all be mindless wonders wandering around the globe. Education is an important factor in our lives, but the past, present, and future of education is changing. And change it will until our education system is the best in the world. In the past, Education in America was plain and simple. Weve all heard the stories of how our ancestors used to have to walk to school 5 miles in the snow in the heat of summer. These shameless exaggerations were meant for us to think tha...
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Eiffel Tower Four Legs
841 wordsJust imagine you are standing 300 meters that is 984 ft above the ground, looking down at the beautiful city of Paris. The wind is blowing at your face and it is messing up your hair, but you do not care. You are on the top of the highest building in the center of culture, the magnificent Paris and that is all that matters. Yes, you are standing on top of Eiffel Tower. This is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about Paris, the tall, lean tower. But have you ever wonder what ...
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Eiffel Tower Wrought Iron
294 wordsMy report is on the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel was built in 1889, for the celebration of the centennial of The French Revolution. Which was in 1789. The Eiffel Tower was named for the builder, Gustave Alexandre Eiffel. u 7 The Eiffel Tower is constructed of 7, 000 tons of wrought iron in 18, 000 parts held together by 2, 500, 000 rivets. Without its modern broadcasting antennae it is 300 m which is 984 feet. It is the tallest building in Paris, where it dominates the skyline. The Eiffel Tower was ...
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Eiffel Tower Wrought Iron
794 wordsThe Eiffel Tower The Eiffel tower is the trademark of Paris, France. With the tower being 984 ft, it? s kind of hard not to notice it. The tower has a restaurant, radio and television transmitter and more. Gustave A. Eiffel created the tower to enter it in the worlds fair. It was made with wrought iron and had medium wind resistance. Gustave started in 1889 and completed in 1910. Gustave A. Eiffel created the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel oversaw the construction with such success that in 1866 he founded...
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Zelda Sayre Younger Generation
1,730 wordsFlappers of the 1920 s When one pictures a young lady of the 1920 s, what does one see? Most often a neatly dressed elegant woman comes to mind. Many teenage girls are always told to act like young women, and are given speeches of how in the old days; everyone was on their best behavior. Actually, this generation s youth is being misled to how the past really was. In the-mid 1920 s the so-called ladies werent all they seem to be. Even though it may be hard to believe the obedience and politeness...
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Black And White Give The Picture Blue
493 wordsThe piece that seemed to stick out at the Foster Gallery exhibit was La Family by Hulleah Tsinnahjhinnie. This artwork was a digital print done on a computer and is really quite extraordinary. I decided to choose color as my formal element, since there seemed to be a lot of colors in this piece, and I love the use of color. Color, especially when shown with black and white, seem to jump off of the paper. They are also like candy for your eyes. This print had two tones of blue: a tertiary color o...
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19 Th Century 12 Th Century
1,294 wordsEiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, wrought-iron tower in Paris, a landmark and an early example of wrought-iron construction on a gigantic scale. It was designed and built by the French civil engineer Gustave Alexandre Eiffel for the Paris Worlds Fair of 1889. The tower, without its modern broadcasting antennae, is 300 m (984 ft) high. The lower section consists of four immense arched legs set on masonry piers. The legs curve inward until they unite in a single tapered tower. Platforms, each with an obs...
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Genetic Disorders Birth Defect
363 wordsGenetic disorders, affecting many different races and genders, have been around for a very long time. Genetic disorders, usually caused by recessive genes, range from minor traits to conditions that prove fatal. Moreover, disorders often result in multiple abnormalities. Furthermore, skeletal and muscular disorders are often transmitted by a single gene, like achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism characterized by abnormal proportions of the arms, legs and body, results from impaired cartilage growt...
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Marfan Syndrome Life Threatening Heart
328 wordsGenetic trait MARFAN SYNDROME is a connective tissue disorder, so affects many structures, including the skeleton, lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. Symptoms they can be painful to live with and often require numerous surgeries. Because of ligaments and muscles with no elasticity, fingers, arms, legs and hips often dislocate. Another symptom that has just recently been acknowledged as a possible symptom is the migraine headache. The possible cause for this being the arteries becoming less el...
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George Washington Carver Peanut Butter
1,337 wordsGeorge Washington Carver Have you ever wondered who invented Peanut Butter? Did you know that the same man made more than 450 products ranging from margarine to library paste that could be made from the peanut, the sweet potato, and various other cultivated plants (web)? That man, also known as the Peanut Man (web), is George Washington Carver. There are three commonly asked questions about Carver including: What was his personal life like? What did he actually do? and What did he like to do whe...
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Bones Of An Animal Species Of Primates Forests
489 wordsAfter seeing the video Gremlins: Faces in the forest (1998) and participating in an interview with Dr. Susan Ford, I have realized that there are so many things that we can be taught about our background history just by closely studying these animals. However I was more intrigued by the fact that more and more of these species are disappearing off the face of the earth. After doing some more reading, I have found that steady loss of forests and hunting has made the primates the most imperiled ma...
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Black And White Anne Sexton
511 wordsBEYOND POLITICS: THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHS This photograph to me captures Annes duality, and argues against reducing her to her death. Cover the top part of the picture; look at the legs tortuously twisted together. It is well known that she made a number of attempts to kill herself. Now cover the bottom half of the photograph, and look at the arms and radiant face. She told me she always felt joyous when she was rescued from those attempts. There was of course no final rescue, but I am not convi...
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Winnie Realizes Empty Words Bag
574 wordsSamuel Beckett s Happy Days is to be read anyway but literal. Beckett uses his brilliance to create an allegory for human condition. Winnie babbling away pretends that she has created an order out of her odd predicament. The play abandons realism and takes on the role of an optimistic idealism. Winnie: no no can t complain no no must t complain so much to be thankful for no pain hardly any wonderful thing that slight headache sometimes occasional mild migraine it comes then goes ah yes many merc...
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Pick Up Truck Fell To The Ground
891 wordsThe Big Bitch Tonight was the first of November, one year after his wife was killed. The night sky was clouded over, the rain was pouring down. Brian was driving his police car back to the station were his shift would end. Brian remembered it like it was yesterday. They were at a B. B. Q. when it happened. They were parting because Brian had just busted a rapist. The rapist was Joe? s brother. The parting continued throughout the night. Like a flash of lightning it was all over. Brian? s wife Li...
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Mise En Scene Point Of View
1,290 wordsIdeology The themes in the movie Forrest Gump are believed by some to be the search for destiny while understanding that simple is good. The movie features many ideas for someone s destiny. For example, are we all just floating around on a breeze or we all have a destiny in life that we need to figure out. The style of the movie is told by a man telling his life story from his point of view. The culture in this movie is based on life in the United States, a southern boy who was put into school b...
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One Of The Men Truman Capote
1,175 wordsIn Cold Blood I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. (p. 110) These are the words spoken by Perry Smith, one of the men who on November the 15 th, 1959 killed the four members of the Clutter household. In Cold Blood, a nonfiction novel by Truman Capote tells just what happened on the days before and after the murder of the Clutters. Right up until the time the two murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hic...
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